Perfect your audio timing using Flex Markers in Garageband
Learn how to manually edit the timing of audio wave ‘transients’ using flex markers or automatically with quantisation
Getting musical timing tight is a big deal in music production. Often referred to as making music to a ‘grid’ or timeline, software makes it easy to perfectly match a strict tempo. Both a blessing or curse, timing tools like ‘quantisation’ can ensure every drum strike or chord strum hits right. Garageband has historically used something called ‘Flex Time’ here. Flex applies to audio region waveforms, allowing the peaks or ‘transients’ to be moved using markers. This manual option is really useful and could yield a more organic timing edit. In this guide we look at how those markers work and also cover the Time Quantise option.